This Day in History — June 1
Today is the 152nd day of 2022. There are 213 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
2001: Nepal’s crown prince, Dipendra, shoots and kills his parents, King Birendra and Queen Aiswarya, and six other royal family members before shooting himself.
OTHER EVENTS
1524: The year-long anti-aristocratic Peasants’ War breaks out in southern Germany.
1562: Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I signs a truce with the Sultan of Turkey, Suleyman I, agreeing to pay tribute for Austria’s share of Hungary.
1671: Turks declare war on Poland, leading to the Polish surrender of Ukraine.
1813: The US Navy gains its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Captain James Lawrence, says, “Don’t give up the ship”, during a losing battle with a British frigate.
1857: Britain’s Royal Navy destroys Chinese fleet in China Sea during the Second Opium War.
1859 Philadelphia A’s organise to play “town ball” which becomes baseball 20 years later.
1869: New Spanish Constitution is promulgated, continuing the monarchy but allowing universal male suffrage and freedom of religion.
1900: Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of the season (sets record at 1074).
1936: After a war of conquest, Ethiopia is annexed by Benito Mussolini’s Italy.
1943: A civilian flight from Lisbon to London is shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all aboard including actor Leslie Howard.
1945: Sukarno, leader of the Indonesian independence movement, gives a speech defining the Pantjasila, or Five Principles of Indonesian Nationhood, for the first time.
1958: Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France.
1964: Kenya becomes a republic with Jomo Kenyatta as its first president. Rolling Stones arrive in New York’s Kennedy International Airport for first US tour, and are greeted by about 500 fans.
1967: The Beatles release their landmark album, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
1968: Author-lecturer Helen Keller, who earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf most of her life, dies in Westport, Connecticut. Simon & Garfunkel’s single Mrs Robinson, from the movie The Graduate, hits number one. (It is the first rock song to win a Grammy for Record of the Year.)
